Every Rose

 [ This soundoff was written in response to an Op-ed written by Mark Franek in regard to the academic rules about cell phone use on campus's]

My favorite line in the piece was, “Instead, young people continue to leave us in their digital dust while we spend our time worrying about building outdoor, coin-operated lockers, completely oblivious to the obvious logistical problems, not to mention the tendency of technology to make all kinds of walls obsolete.” I thought it was a cleverly worded zinger that was easy to understand.
I have to agree with all the rest who have previously commented, this is a very dumb idea. What’s wrong with the lockers that teh school has already paid to install in tha hallways? From the sound of it, those lockers would be more safe than the cell-phone lockers. Though I’ll admit, I tend to keep my phone on me and not leave it in my locker,simply because in an emergerncy situation I’ll have a life-line. I also agree with brigid and Caroline about our school doing a great job keeping the phone activity under control. They have been working on including the use of such devices in the classroom, for example, in my French class. My teacher participated in a workshop that got her up to date on the latest technology that she can use in the classroom. She says for future assignments we will be required to use a cell phone, and hopefully will be able to do some iPod activities aswell.
I think that technology is moving forward at such a rapid pace, that it would be silly to attempt to slow it by adding a few more expensive lockers.

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